Topic #3: From Communism to Free Enterprise / Political Challenges (p. 430-432)

L (What did you learn? Take notes as you read; answer your questions):
  • Communism- any system of government in which a single, usually totalitarian, party holds power, and the state controls the economy
  • Free enterprise system-a market economy
  • Nuclear Energy- power made by a controlled atomic reaction
  • Democracy-a government in which the people freely elect their leaders
  • Federal Republic-democracy or form of government
  • The fall of communism lead Russians to adopt a market economy or free enterprise system and wanted to become more independent and wanted to be able to choose things themselves
  • With the free enterprise system it allows the Russian people to build and run there own business without the intervention of the government
  • Life expectancy depends on how health the population is
  • Chechnya is a small place near the Caspian Sea where the Chechen people live
  • a russian president has more power than an american president
  • nuclear waste is power made by creating a controlled atomic reaction they leave dangerous by- products
  • free enterprise system is when people start and run businesses with little government intervention
  • the government told factory manager what products to make and how many and who they could sell it to
  • a free enterprise system is where people start and run their own buisnesess with little government intervention russian factory managers can decide what they want to make
  • people are suffering from pollution and life expectancy is declining
  • the communist government polluted the air, and poisoned the water they built energy plants that leave dangerous by products.
  • life expectancy is the number of years an average person lives?
  • nuclear energy-- power made by a controlled atomic action
  • pollution was all over Russia
  • democracy-- a government in which people can vote freely vote leaders